Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise

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Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise

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Date
late 1800s
Medium
Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, lacquer, and gold on silk
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
150419

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This screen depicts an episode from the Tales of Ise , a 10th-century collection of poems and associated narratives in which the main character composes the following poem while drinking sake and viewing cherry blossoms: If, in this world of ours / All the cherry blossoms / Disappeared / The heart of spring / Might find peace. Our hero relaxes on a shoulder rest, gazing at the flowers, his sake dish before him on a lacquered stand. A plump boy attendant monitors the sake dishes, a ewer at the ready. An associate sits with paper, ink, and brush, poised to record poems.

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Credit line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Provenance
?–1980: Chester Dale Carter | December 18, 1980: (Sotheby's New York, NY, December 18, 1980 sale, lot 131, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1980–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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